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Default What if Americans really knew their history?


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On Friday, August 8, 2014 8:48:46 AM UTC-4, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 8/8/2014 8:41 AM, David J. Hughes wrote:

A rallying cry of the American Revolution was "No Taxation Without


Representation".


Fifteen years after the Declaration of Independence, Federal troops


crushed the protesters of Western Pennsylvania, who were being taxed



without representation (commonly known as the Whiskey Rebellion).


I sure don't feel represented.


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Congress is chock full of idiots, Chris....

--IOW, they actually represent you quite well.